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Brzezinski: Clinton Enthusiasm Dwarfed by Sanders, The Coronation Didn't Happen

June 2, 2016

The "coronation" establishment Democrats wanted for Hillary Clinton isn't happening, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski said Thursday.

As evidenced by the massive crowds enjoyed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), Clinton and the Democrats are making a mistake in ignoring their movement, she added.

Brzezinski, a vocal critic of a Democratic primary process she sees as skewed in favor of Clinton, asked reporter Katty Kay on Thursday's Morning Joe how many people were at Clinton's rally she attended the day before.

"It wasn't very big. I would say 4 or 500 people," Kay said. "It was an athletic stadium, and it was two-thirds full."

"These Bernie Sanders supporters turn out wherever he goes by the thousands, sometimes tens of thousands," Brzezinski said. "You're really going to just say, 'You know what? You guys don't matter. Your voice doesn't matter. What you've been doing doesn't matter. The guy you've been following doesn't matter.'

"From the beginning, they thought they could get rid of him. They thought the coronation could happen. It didn't. Look at this. Look at these people. Stop ignoring them. Stop making the Trump mistake that the Republicans made Stop ignoring Bernie Sanders."

Brzezinski went so far as to call for the resignation of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) last month for her failures to run a fair primary process.

Kay said, however, that there was no indication of superdelegates for Clinton switching their support to Sanders. Clinton is on the verge of clinching the nomination next week due in large part to her wide lead among the superdelegates, who are unpledged and not selected by the voters.